Button-Accordion Project
(Dual-row G-C or A-D, with Accidentals)
Based on tunes2play4fun.com & Facilitated by ZOOM
MINI-COURSE BA1
The Button Accordion, its Music & Notation
UNIT SIX (of TEN)
Harmony and Preparation for Unit Eight
(Dual-row G-C or A-D, with Accidentals)
Based on tunes2play4fun.com & Facilitated by ZOOM
MINI-COURSE BA1
The Button Accordion, its Music & Notation
UNIT SIX (of TEN)
Harmony and Preparation for Unit Eight
SLIDES & COMMENTS
Slide 1
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Welcome to Unit 6 of BA1 Unit 6 provides an introduction to harmony, introduces four new melodies, all as a preparation for Unit 8 which provides an introduction to tunes with two beats per bar. |
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This shows that the final five units of this mini-course have been reorganized and retitled. |
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We'll begin with a brief exploration of harmony.
Although HARMONY is important in accordion music, our exploration in this BA1 mini-course will be rather limited. First, we'll attempt a description of musical harmony. |
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We are particularly interested in harmony as it applies to matching the treble and bass-end buttons of our accordions.
This is an improtant prelude to playing tunes. Recall that tunes contain melody, harmony and rhythm. |
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We may think of melody as the tune's dominant musical movement through time.
We may think of harmony throughout a tune as musical windows in time. Rhythm is related to the tune's melodic and harmonic patterns in time. Harmony makes an important contribution to the listener's response to the music. |
Musical responses are subjective. What one person hears as harmony may be somewhat painful to someone else.
Composers can include both consonance and dissonance in their choices of notes, to achieve various emotional and intellectual responses.
Composers can include both consonance and dissonance in their choices of notes, to achieve various emotional and intellectual responses.
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Although the relationship between bass-end notes and chords and treble notes were briefly highlighted earlier in our mini-course, it bears repeating.
DEMO: With your mikes muted, play and listen as we press buttons 2 to 11 on the outside row and buttons 2 to 10 on the inside row, one after the other, accompanied by the appropriate bass-end buttons, for both pushes and pulls of the bellows. |
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My observation that "all the matches on the push are pleasant" is, of course, subjective.
There are wide variations both among cultures and within cultures as to which musical sounds are pleasant and which are unpleasant. |
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This is also true of my observation that "there is mostly a pleasant match" on the pull."
To me, some are very pleasant, and others are merely somewhat pleasant. |
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However, I believe that they are pleasant enough for the two conclusions I have stated at left.
This is important as we prepare for Unit 8 and the playing of tunes with two beats per bar, and in preparing also for Unit 10 and the playing of tunes with three beats per bar. |
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Merely a suggestion:
Pick one two from the melody list at left to play as smoothly as possible in preparation for Unit 8. That way, when we get to Unit 8 in a couple of weeks, you won't have to keep looking at the accordion notation for the right-hand treble notes, but can instead focus on the "two beats" per bar. |
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I've included four new melodies for the following two reasons:
1. Not everyone may want to start playing the bass-end buttons at this time, but would prefer to learn more melodies. 2. If, and when, you are ready to focus on tunes, playing with both hands, these selections can provide a suitable next-step. |
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See web site for remainder of the melody |
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See web site for additional verses.
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See web site for additional verses.
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This melody is also used as a doxology in many churches, sometimes titled "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow".
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Unit 7 is also mainly a preparation for Unit 8.
Continue to practice the selection(s) you have chosen from List 2 at left. Feel free to also practice one or more melodies from list 3 at left, especially if you are primarily interested in adding to your collection of melodies at this time. |
Slide 22 (Topic 5e)
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